Failure Or Reform

Author : Mats Lundahl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134231249

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The Political Economy of Reform Failure by Mats Lundahl Pdf

Economists have moved in recent years beyond analyzing the manner in which the macroeconomies of different countries function and prescribing appropriate policies for dealing with domestic and external imbalances. Increasingly, they have sought to understand the complex interaction between political and economic phenomena. This book considers issues of economic reform in a broad range of settings: * developed countries * transition countries * developing countries Using country specific cases such as Uzbekistan, Burma and Haiti, it focuses on those territories which have encountered problems reforming, allowing the reader to gain an accurate understanding of the factors that inhibit the success of economic reform, the different context in which economic reform is attempted, and the different challenges that individual countries face. An international team of contributors including Bo Södersten, Deepak Lal and Ron Findlay have been brought together to analyze these topical issues, making this an informative and thought-provoking book, of interest to those involved in the field of development studies.

Author : Kenneth J. Saltman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317259732

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Failure of Corporate School Reform by Kenneth J. Saltman Pdf

Corporate school reforms, especially privatization, union busting, and high-stakes testing have been hailed as the last best hope for public education. Yet, as Kenneth Saltman powerfully argues in this new book, corporate school reforms have decisively failed to deliver on what their proponents have promised for two decades: higher test scores and lower costs. As Saltman illustrates, the failures of corporate school reform are far greater and more destructive than they seem. Left unchecked, corporate school reform fails to challenge and in fact worsens the most pressing problems facing public schooling, including radical funding inequalities, racial segregation, and anti-intellectualism. But it is not too late for change. Against both corporate school reformers and its liberal critics, this book argues for the expansion of democratic pedagogies and a new common school movement that will lead to broader social renewal.

Author : Stewart Lockie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-24
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 1138223395

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Failure Or Reform? by Stewart Lockie Pdf

Market reform promises more environmental protection and more profitable agriculture at lower financial cost. Too good to be true? This book examines numerous empirical examples of policy in action to identify principles for the successful application of market-based policy instruments. Where some market instruments are used to fix market failures by putting a value on environmental protection, others use market-like mechanisms to allocate financial incentives for environmental work. They are promoted as flexible, efficient and politically neutral solutions to the competing demands of social, economic and ecological sustainability. But they also attract criticism for rolling back environmental regulation and privatizing public goods. This book argues that while many market-based instruments have merit, decisions about responsibility cannot be left entirely to the market. Whichever instruments we use, decision-making needs to be embedded in a logic of democratization. Using case studies from around the world, this book investigates how instruments like eco-standards, payments for ecosystem services, pollution trading and community-based natural resource management perform in practice, and what can be learned about applying them more effectively. While the approach is primarily sociological, it is deliberately written to bridge the gap between sociology, economics, environmental sciences and the concerns of environmental policy makers.

Author : Charles M. Payne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131620424

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So Much Reform, So Little Change by Charles M. Payne Pdf

This frank and courageous book explores the persistence of failure in today's urban schools. At its heart is the argument that most education policy discussions are disconnected from the daily realities of urban schools, especially those in poor and beleaguered neighborhoods. Charles M. Payne argues that we have failed to account fully for the weakness of the social infrastructure and the often dysfunctional organizational environments of urban schools and school systems. The result is that liberals and conservatives alike have spent a great deal of time pursuing questions of limited practical value in the effort to improve city schools. Payne carefully delineates these stubborn and intertwined sources of failure in urban school reform efforts of the past two decades. Yet while his book is unsparing in its exploration of the troubled recent history of urban school reform, Payne also describes himself as "guardedly optimistic." He describes how, in the last decade, we have developed real insights into the roots of school failure, and into how some individual schools manage to improve. He also examines recent progress in understanding how particular urban districts have established successful reforms on a larger scale. Drawing on a striking array of sources--from the recent history of various urban school systems, to the growing sophistication of education research, to his own experience as a teacher, scholar, and participant in reform efforts--Payne paints a vivid and unmistakably realistic portrait of urban schools and reforms of the past few decades. So Much Reform, So Little Change will be required reading for everyone interested in the plight--and the future--of urban schools.

Author : Stewart Lockie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315404929

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Failure or Reform? by Stewart Lockie Pdf

Market reform promises more environmental protection and more profitable agriculture at lower financial cost. Too good to be true? This book examines numerous empirical examples of policy in action to identify principles for the successful application of market-based policy instruments. Where some market instruments are used to fix market failures by putting a value on environmental protection, others use market-like mechanisms to allocate financial incentives for environmental work. They are promoted as flexible, efficient and politically neutral solutions to the competing demands of social, economic and ecological sustainability. But they also attract criticism for rolling back environmental regulation and privatizing public goods. This book argues that while many market-based instruments have merit, decisions about responsibility cannot be left entirely to the market. Whichever instruments we use, decision-making needs to be embedded in a logic of democratization. Using case studies from around the world, this book investigates how instruments like eco-standards, payments for ecosystem services, pollution trading and community-based natural resource management perform in practice, and what can be learned about applying them more effectively. While the approach is primarily sociological, it is deliberately written to bridge the gap between sociology, economics, environmental sciences and the concerns of environmental policy makers.

Author : Julia Buxton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351793018

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The Failure of Political Reform in Venezuela by Julia Buxton Pdf

This title was first published in 2001.The victory of former lieutenant colonel Hugo Chavez in the Venezuelan presidential elections of 1998 was criticized as a blow against the country's deep-seated democratic tradition. It is claimed that this simplistic argument fails to recognize the extent of democratic deterioration in the country and the limitations imposed by discredited political actors on a meaningful democratic reform process. The book aims to break new ground in providing unseen evidence of electoral fraud and offers a fresh perspective on the nature of democratic development.

Author : Majid Mohammadi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135893422

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Judicial Reform and Reorganization in 20th Century Iran by Majid Mohammadi Pdf

Iran is now at the center of political and social developments in the Middle East. This book examines the reform of the judicial system in 20th century Iran and is the first to relate state-building process with rule of law promotion and judicial reform in the region. This subject occupies the critical juncture of three developments in the contemporary study of Iranian society as an important and early case of social revolution and reform in the Middle East: the state-building process in a non-Western country throughout the 20th century, the incorporation of a non-Western Muslim country into the Western legal framework through codification and transplantation (1911-1979), and the Islamicization process after this critical social development and the Islamic Revolution of 1979. This exceptional study furthers our understanding of Iranian modern history as well as the democratization process, human rights and rule of law issues in the Middle East.

Author : E. Scott Adler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226007564

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Why Congressional Reforms Fail by E. Scott Adler Pdf

For decades, advocates of congressional reforms have repeatedly attempted to clean up the House committee system, which has been called inefficient, outmoded, unaccountable, and even corrupt. Yet these efforts result in little if any change, as members of Congress who are generally satisfied with existing institutions repeatedly obstruct what could fairly be called innocuous reforms. What lies behind the House's resistance to change? Challenging recent explanations of this phenomenon, Scott Adler contends that legislators resist rearranging committee powers and jurisdictions for the same reason they cling to the current House structure—the ambition for reelection. The system's structure works to the members' advantage, helping them obtain funding (and favor) in their districts. Using extensive evidence from three major reform periods—the 1940s, 1970s, and 1990s—Adler shows that the reelection motive is still the most important underlying factor in determining the outcome of committee reforms, and he explains why committee reform in the House has never succeeded and probably never will.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264189751

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The OECD Report on Regulatory Reform Synthesis Report by OECD Pdf

This book shows hows how regulatory reform has produced substantial economic and social benefits for citizens by enhancing competition and reducing regulatory costs.

Author : Greg Berman,Aubrey Fox
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781442268487

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Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform by Greg Berman,Aubrey Fox Pdf

In this revised edition of their concise, readable, yet wide-ranging book, Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox tackle a question students and scholars of law, criminology, and political science constantly face: what mistakes have led to the problems that pervade the criminal justice system in the United States? The reluctance of criminal justice policymakers to talk openly about failure, the authors argue, has stunted the public conversation about crime in this country and stifled new ideas. It has also contributed to our inability to address such problems as chronic offending in low-income neighborhoods, an overreliance on incarceration, the misuse of pretrial detention, and the high rates of recidivism among parolees. Berman and Fox offer students and policymakers an escape from this fate by writing about failure in the criminal justice system. Their goal is to encourage a more forthright dialogue about criminal justice, one that acknowledges that many new initiatives fail and that no one knows for certain how to reduce crime. For the authors, this is not a source of pessimism, but a call to action. This revised edition is updated with a new foreword by Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., and afterword by Greg Berman.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Health Care
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822037824356

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The Role of Long-term Care in Health Reform by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Health Care Pdf

Author : John Merrow
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781620972434

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Addicted to Reform by John Merrow Pdf

The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America’s misguided approaches to K-12 school reform During an illustrious four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow—winner of the George Polk Award, the Peabody Award, and the McGraw Prize—reported from every state in the union, as well as from dozens of countries, on everything from the rise of district-wide cheating scandals and the corporate greed driving an ADD epidemic to teacher-training controversies and America’s obsession with standardized testing. Along the way, he taught in a high school, at a historically black college, and at a federal penitentiary. Now, the revered education correspondent of PBS NewsHour distills his best thinking on education into a twelve-step approach to fixing a K–12 system that Merrow describes as being “addicted to reform” but unwilling to address the real issue: American public schools are ill-equipped to prepare young people for the challenges of the twenty-first century. This insightful book looks at how to turn digital natives into digital citizens and why it should be harder to become a teacher but easier to be one. Merrow offers smart, essential chapters—including “Measure What Matters,” and “Embrace Teachers”—that reflect his countless hours spent covering classrooms as well as corridors of power. His signature candid style of reportage comes to life as he shares lively anecdotes, schoolyard tales, and memories that are at once instructive and endearing. Addicted to Reform is written with the kind of passionate concern that could come only from a lifetime devoted to the people and places that constitute the foundation of our nation. It is a “big book” that forms an astute and urgent blueprint for providing a quality education to every American child.

Author : Michael Marrese
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1990-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349114092

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The Challenge of Simultaneous Economic Relations with East and West by Michael Marrese Pdf

This work contains papers presented at a conference held in March 1988. It chronicles the efforts of four countries - Austria, Finland, Hungary and Yugoslavia - to develop economic ties with both the East and the West. Topics covered include the evolution of dual economic ties.

Author : Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315285474

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Development in the Third World: From Policy Failure to Policy Reform by Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr. Pdf

This book is a study of Third World economic development and the factors which have made development so elusive. It discusses the policy reform necessary to spur development as well as the relationship between development theory and policy. The author argues that the key to successful development policy is through reduced state intervention, and that to the extent state intervention is necessary, it should be through rather than against the market mechanism.

Author : Saturnino M. Borras
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780776617718

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Pro-poor Land Reform by Saturnino M. Borras Pdf

Using empirical case materials from the Philippines and referring to rich experiences from different countries historically, this book offers conceptual and practical conclusions that have far-reaching implications for land reform throughout the world. Examining land reform theory and practice, this book argues that conventional practices have excluded a significant portion of land-based production and distribution relationships, while they have inadvertently included land transfers that do not constitute real redistributive reform. By direct implication, this book is a critique of both mainstream market led agrarian reform and conventional state-led land reform. It offers an alternative perspective on how to move forward in theory and practice and opens new paths in land policy research.